This article is about music-related events in 1829.

Events

• March 11 – The German composer Felix Mendelssohn (age 20) conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
• April–September – Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This visit included the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.^[1]
• July – George Washington Dixon popularizes "Coal Black Rose" singing in blackface in New York City.
• December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes her house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
• Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy in Warsaw which will later be named after him. He also hears Paganini perform and begins writing his Etudes.

Popular music

• "There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw^[2]

Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – La Mort de Cleopatre
• Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor
• Frederic Chopin
  • Introduction and Polonaise Brillante Op. 3
  • Piano Trio Op. 8
  • Étude Op. 10, No. 8
  • Étude Op. 10, No. 9
  • Étude Op. 10, No. 10
  • Étude Op. 10, No. 11
  • Piano Concerto No. 2
• Carl Czerny
  • Piano Trio No.2, Op.166
  • Sonatina in A major, Op.167
  • Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte, Op.200
• Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A-flat major
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Gesellschafts Rondo, Op.117
• Friedrich Kuhlau
  • Fantaisie, Op.93
  • Introduction and Rondo on 'Le Colporteur', Op.98a
  • 3 Brilliant Duos for 2 Flutes, Op.102
  • 7 Variations on an Irish Folksong, Op.105
• Caspar Kummer
  • Adagio et Variations sur un Thême de l’Opéra : Armida, de Rossini, p. Cor de Bassette avec Orchestre, Op. 45
  • 2 Duos for Flute and Clarinet, Op.46
  • Flute Trio, Op.53
• Joseph Merk – Valses brillantes, Op.6
• Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture

Opera

• Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
• Gioacchino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

Births

• January 24 – William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
• February 4 – Marquis d'Ivry, composer (died 1903)
• February 11 – Camillo Walzel, librettist (died 1895)
• March 6 – Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
• May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
• May 9 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
• June 9 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
• June 11 – Horace Poussard, violinist and composer (d. 1898)
• August 7 – Timoteo Pasini, composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1888)
• August 21 – Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1907)
• August 25 – Carlo Acton, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
• August 28 – Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
• October 6 – Josef Gänsbacher, music educator (died 1911)
• November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
• date unknown
  • Fritz Andersen, composer (died 1910)

Deaths

• January 25 – William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
• January 30 – Friedrich Haug, lyricist (born 1761)
• February 16 – François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
• February 18 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
• April 28 – Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, composer (born 1763)
• May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
• August 15 – Christian Gottlieb Scheidler, composer (born 1747)
• August 16 – Carl Gotthelf Gläser, hymnist (born 1784)
• October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
• December 14 – Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer (b. 1754)